Tomorrow: Tu B'Av Class Is it a dance of the past or of the future? Where do you fit into the dance? Tomorrow, Wednesday 1:30 EST / 8:30 ILT Tu B'av Class

In just a few hours, we'll sit on the floor. We'll dim the lights, remove our leather shoes, and begin reading Eichah once again. And we wonder - How do we mourn for something we've never known? How do we cry for a Beis HaMikdash we never saw? This week, while preparing for Tisha B'Av, one word kept echoing in my mind. Chazon - Vision. We often think of Chazon as referring to Yeshayahu's vision of destruction. But throughout our tefillos, we ask for another kind of vision: ותחזינה עינינו...

It's Rosh Chodesh Av. We are entering the month that holds two opposites more intensely than perhaps any other. It is the month of churban. And it is the month in which Mashiach is born. We mourn what we have lost, yet we spend the month anticipating what we have not yet seen. Every day, after davening, we say the words of Ani Maamin: "Achakeh lo b'chol yom sheyavo" — I await him every day that he will come. The Rambam goes even further. He writes that it is not enough to believe in Mashiach....